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Excel Spreadsheets & Charts without the Capability of Excel
Updated May 15, 2017

Excel Spreadsheets & Charts without the Capability of Excel

Cody Guymon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

We use Anaplan within sales ops and across our sales teams for territory planning. It is used by 3 members of our sales operations team, 5 region leads, and 15 team leads. We use it for "What-if" analysis in territory design. It allows reps to be able to see the impact of changes before they actually happen.
  • Speed
  • The UI (User Interface) is Ugly
  • Cumbersome to Use / Model
  • Lacks basic functionality of Excel
  • Clunky
Territory planning would be the ideal use case here, but Anaplan lacks basic Excel functionality. You need to choose one sorting option for all of your graphs, you can't change the color or theme of the display pages, and it is not intuitive to use. If you need speed, it can handle that, but be prepared to give up a lot of capabilities.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

1.5
Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
Not Rated
Forecasting
Not Rated
Scenario modeling
2
Management reporting
1
Not Rated
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
Not Rated
Management Reporting
Not Rated
Excel-based Reporting
Not Rated
1.5
Personalized dashboards
2
Color-coded scorecards
1
Cost and profitability analysis
Not Rated
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
Not Rated
Flat file integration
Not Rated
Excel data integration
Not Rated
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Not Rated
BI Standard Reporting ()
Not Rated
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
Report Output and Scheduling ()
Not Rated
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
Access Control and Security ()
Not Rated
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated

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